Epic Yankees-Red Sox GameThe Yankees-Red Sox game last night might have settled the AL East. Alex Rodriguez became the first player in the history of baseball to hit a walk-off home run in the fifteenth inning or later while Brad Pitt was drinking coffee during a thunderstorm in Missouri while I was at a Giants game listening to people behind me try to find the pitch clock which they found in the bottom of the eighth inning but that wasn't before Reds fans started getting heckled and a man with a Dodgers shirt was a cursed out to break a 0-0 tie. Or, in short, A-Rod hit a walkoff two-run jack to end the 0-0 tie in the fifteenth inning. [NY POST] (0)(11992)

Melky Cabrera Hits For The Cycle:New York Yankees outfielder Melky Cabrera hit for the cycle yesterday in an 8-5 Yankee win over the White Sox. Cabrera is the fifteenth Yankee to hit for the cycle in the history of the team, and is the first to do so in 14 years. The Yankees sit .5 in front of the Red Sox in the AL East. Speaking of the Red Sox: their new catcher, Victor Martinez, went 5-for-6 yesterday with four RBIs, the first Red Sox catcher to do so in a good amount of time. [New York Post] (0)(11748)

Previews are pointless. Rarely do they offer any insight into what their actually previewing. Most fans already know who is who and what is what. It’s the World Series. If you didn’t know the specifics, you probably weren’t going to watch anyway. Especially with baseball. This 2009 season has been going [...]

Los Angeles Angels 7 – New York Yankees 6: After holding a 4-0 lead from the first inning to the sixth, Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia decided to take out his starting pitcher John Lackey, who had been lights out until the seventh, after he allowed the Yankees to load the bases with [...]

After effectively defecting from Cuba several months ago, pitching prospect Aroldis Chapman has been approved to become a free agent by Major League Baseball. Chapman will easily be the most sought after prize on the market thanks to this news, with the big money teams, like the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels and Dodgers, being [...]

It’s back. “Reading the Internet” will give 3-5 links to stories, videos or pictures that are popular in the sports world for that day. The title of the article was inspired by Florida Marlins manager Freddy Gonzalez when he said “I read the newspaper…..and those others, uh, reading the internet…” in an interview on [...]

As The Big Lead has pointed out many times this season, the big market teams are destroying the standings right now. Of the top seven teams salary wise, only the New York Mets are not realistically in their division or wild card race. Here is how the rest of those teams stack up:

The Yankees-Red Sox game last night might have settled the AL East. Alex Rodriguez became the first player in the history of baseball to hit a walk-off home run in the fifteenth inning or later while Brad Pitt was drinking coffee during a thunderstorm in Missouri while I was at a Giants game listening [...]

New York Yankees outfielder Melky Cabrera hit for the cycle yesterday in an 8-5 Yankee win over the White Sox. Cabrera is the fifteenth Yankee to hit for the cycle in the history of the team, and is the first to do so in 14 years. The Yankees sit .5 in front of the [...]